"4 dishes, freshly baked! Picking up two insulated lunch boxes, Wen Yanying beckoned the reporter to get into the car.
The destination of the "mobile food truck" is an anti-freeze and thaw sentinel about 20 kilometers away.
The group drove out of Xiangyin County, Yueyang, Hunan, through village groups and housing farms, and crossed ponds and rice fields. The road is getting more and more winding, and the car is driving slower and slower. Finally, in front of a convenience store in Longtansi Village, Jinghe Town, the car turned up a small slope and arrived.
It is said to be a "sentinel point", but it is actually an abandoned two-story building surrounded by weeds.
Welcome! Seeing an acquaintance coming, the sentry workers Hu Liang and Lin Zhirong ran down to the second floor with a smile to greet them.
They have been on guard for eight days. Wen Yanying told reporters. As the secretary of the Party branch of the transmission and maintenance company of the State Grid Yueyang Power Supply Company, this is the second time Wen Yanying has sent "supplies" to the sentinel site. Four days ago, she drove a special trip to bring instant noodles and self-heating rice to the two.
The "stronghold" of the two workers, a slightly cleaned "suite" on the second floor, can be described as shabby: the outer room is a workshop, and the desk is placed with equipment such as a wind vane, vernier caliper, and flashlight; In the middle is the "living quarter", with two camp beds, one large and one small, and an electric heater for heating.
The window is facing the tuyere, and the door lock is also broken, and the wind is very sour! Hu Liangle on the side said he. In this building "older" than him, Hu Liang has guarded at least 8 times, 4 of which are with Lin Zhirong. He still remembers that he had just joined the work in 2014 and was sent to this lonely outpost at the end of the year. "The house has nothing but electricity, and there is no water. ”
Improve your food! Lin Zhirong couldn't wait to open the insulated lunch box. In the past few days since they were stationed at the outpost, except for two meals at the line guard's house, the two of them have not eaten hot food. Go to a nearby convenience store and buy snacks such as ham sausage to "accompany your meal", even if it is a better life.
Half of the food was eaten, and the rest was to be saved for dinner. "Let's take you to see our work site! The two put on their work clothes and hard hats, and took the reporter to the roof of the building first. The sentinel has two observation points, one of which is facing the direction of the tuyere.
To be honest, sentinel work is not so complicated, it is to observe regularly and report the situation as soon as possible. Hu Liang introduced. While the installation of ice monitors on transmission lines can provide insight into the icing, accurate data requires manual measurements.
The frequency of observation is determined by the icing of the line. occurrence of icing, every 4 hours; Persistent severe icing, every two hours. The uncharged analog wire is the most important "reference" for observation.
In the early morning of January 21, Longtansi Village ushered in heavy snowfall, and it fell for a day and a night, "nearly 30 centimeters thick!" Hu Liang opened the mobile phone ** that was being filmed at the time, only to see that the snow had not covered his boots, and he was struggling. Fortunately, the temperature did not continue to drop, the snow melted quickly, and there was no significant ice cover on the line.
In Hu Liang's memory, the most serious icing occurred in 2018. That year, two groups of four people, including him, were stationed at the sentinel and went out to observe every two hours in shifts.
Walking 300 meters on a muddy path is another observation point. Hu Liang climbed the line pole with the help of professional tools, measured the wind direction and speed with a wind vane, and simulated the icing with a vernier caliper.
As a front-line transmission maintenance worker, it is common to wade through mountains and rivers, eat and sleep in the open, and it is even more common to go to work on time and not get off work on time. Speaking of the experience of being bitten by a snake, stung by a wasp, and chased by a wild boar, Lin Zhirong's face was indifferent.
My son in the class called me an 'electrical engineer'. Lin Zhirong smiled.
They are not allowed to leave the sentinel without permission, and their leisure time is especially boring and lonely. In addition to chatting, eating melon seeds, and swiping their mobile phones, the two are most looking forward to talking to their families at night. Hu Liang was newly married to Yan'er last year, and his wife works in the county, and most of them only get together on weekends. For Lin Zhirong, his wife is a housewife, his mother has suffered a stroke and is bedridden, and the burden of the family is far greater than the shortcomings of gathering less and leaving more.
On the night of February 1, Hunan ushered in a round of low-temperature rain, snow and freezing weather. Hu Liang told reporters that due to the failure of the transmission line, the two were urgently transferred to the front line of emergency repairs and "worked all night".
Since February 19, Hunan has once again ushered in a continuous process of low temperature, rain, snow and freezing weather. "I'm about to leave for a new outpost, or to take a shift with 'Squad Leader Lin', and the location is on the top of the mountain where the conditions are more difficult. Hu Liang said.
This article was published in The Worker**, February 22, 2024, page 1).